
WashU Expert: Separating fact from fiction in housing affordability and corporate investors
TL;DR: Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that while a new bipartisan housing bill targets corporate landlords, they are not the main cause of the housing affordability crisis and serve as a cosmetic fix. Institutional investors own only a small share of homes, while the real issue is a massive housing shortage driven by underbuilding and restrictive zoning.